1651. 4to. (14), 591, (23) pp, final blank. With additional engr. title page (frontispiece), 4 full-page text woodcuts (2 folding) and several smaller woodcuts in the text, as well as 1 folding woodcut plate, latterly backed with cloth. Sumptuous mid-19th-century three quarter morocco binding with gilt spine. Extremely rare and early edition of this great English hippiatric manual, first published in 1615, by one of the earliest western owners of and dealers in Arabian horses. A distinctly modern touch is provided by the small woodcut pointing hands scattered about the margins, denoting new cures and "medicines that are most certaine and approved; and heretofore never published". Gervase (Gervais, Jarvis) Markham, as well as his father Robert, a Nottinghamshire MP and Sheriff, was the owner of valuable horses, and "is said to have imported the first Arab. In a list of Sir Henry Sidney's horses in 1589 'Pied Markham' is entered as having been sold to the French ambassador [and it, or a horse of the same name, may have been given to Markham by Sir Francis Walsingham], and Gervase sold an Arabian horse to James I for £500" (DNB). - Variously browned; occasional corner faults (no loss to text). From the library of Sir Robert Throckmorton, Bt. (1800-62), member of an eminent Anglo-Catholic noble family who sat in the House of Commons from 1831 to 1835 (his bookplate on front pastedown; a later bookplate is opposite on the flyleaf). Wing M659. Poynter 20.7. Wellcome IV, 56 (incomplete). Cf. Mennessier de la Lance II, 156. Huth p. 17 (other editions).

Amsterdam: Judocum Pluymer, 1651. First edition. Vellum. Very Good. 4to. (8),337,(23)pp. Index. Engraved vignette on title page. BOUND WITH: Meursius, Johannes. CRETA, CYPRUS, RHODUS, Sive de Nobilissimarum Harum Insularum Rebus & Antiquitatibus. Commentarii Postumi, nunc Primum Editi. Amsterdam: Abrahamum Wolfgangum. 1675. 3 parts in 1. (8),264;(2),175,(1);(2),124,(68)pp. Indices for all 3 parts bound at end. "Creta" with a divisional half-title. "Cyprus" and Rhodus" with their own dated title pages. The two works bound together in cont. vellum, large gilt arms on the front cover with the name "Carolus Welser, Patricius Augustanus Noribergensis" stamped on the outer border. The final part of the second work, dealing with ancient Rhodes, is annotated & extra-illustrated (2 added engraved plates, one a folding plate of the Colossus of Rhodes). There are 3 added blanks with manuscript notes, and additional manuscript notes in the text. A fine copy. Both works are posthumously printed first editions. Meursius died in 1639, leaving a number of unpublished manuscripts. 1. On the ancient history of Sparta. With a great deal of text in Greek. Edited by Samuel Pufendorf. II. On the ancient world of Crete, Cyprus and Rhodes. With a great deal of text in Greek. Edited by Johannes Georgius Graevius. [Attributes: First Edition]

1651. Small folio (210 x 280 mm). (8), 444, (48) pp. With separate engr. title page, eng. portrait fater the preliminaries and full-page woodcut on p. 59. Contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties. First edition. - "Cette biographie est un des livres classiques de la langue portugaise" (Brunet). Includes an account of the battles at Ormuz between the Turks and the Arabs. Dom João de Castro (1500-48) was a naval officer and later Viceroy of Portuguese India. In 1538 he embarked on his first voyage to India, arriving at Goa and immediately proceeding to the defense of Diu. Castro was responsible for the overthrow of Mahmud, King of Gujarat whose interests threatened Portuguese control of the Goan coast. His voyages frequently took him to the coasts of Arabia, and his present biography contains many details about the Peninsula, especially about Aden and the sea route to Mecca. Castro died in Goa in 1548 and was initially buried there, but his remains were later exhumed and transferred to Portugal. - Contemporary ink ownership to printed title. Binding loosened in places, still a good, wide-margined copy of this rare edition. Atabey 462. Brunet I, 263. Graesse I, 118.

Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot,(1651, 1651.). [6], 318 p. Lacking the engraved portrait and the initial and final blanks. First edition. New blind ruled mottled calf binding. Spine with raised bands, lettered direct. Frayed fore edge of the first three leaves expertly repaired, affecting one letter of text on the title page. Pinhole of wormimg occasionally touches page numbers otherwise internally clean and crisp with good margins. Some early underlining in the text. A very good copy. The letters were published posthumously by Donne's son as was the case with Biathanatos. ESTC R2111. Keynes 55.

Milan: Giovanni Battista and Giulio Cesare Malatesta , 1651. Hardback, contemporary paper-covered boards, recent leather spine. 40cm x 26cm. Engraved additional title, 20 etched plates by Cotta, Giovanni Battista del Sole, Hieronymous Quadrius after Storer, Stephanus Montaltus and Carolus Butius, one folding, three double-page. Some old soiling and light damp marking, fore edges of some plates re-inforced, one double-page plate repaired without loss, contemporary or old ms Italian writing in margin of all plates giving brief description of the plate. This rare fete book records the 'state entry' into Milan of Philip IV of Spain and his queen Maria Anna. The plates are designed to draw a parallel between the Hapsburgs and great events from Roman history. The majority are after Johann Christoph Storer, a German artist working in Northern Italy. A scarce book. (bs35a). Hard Cover. Very Good.

Giovanni Battista and Giulio Cesare Malatesta, Milan 1651 - Hardback, contemporary paper-covered boards, recent leather spine. 40cm x 26cm. Engraved additional title, 20 etched plates by Cotta, Giovanni Battista del Sole, Hieronymous Quadrius after Storer, Stephanus Montaltus and Carolus Butius, one folding, three double-page. Some old soiling and light damp marking, fore edges of some plates re-inforced, one double-page plate repaired without loss, contemporary or old ms Italian writing in margin of all plates giving brief description of the plate. This rare fete book records the 'state entry' into Milan of Philip IV of Spain and his queen Maria Anna. The plates are designed to draw a parallel between the Hapsburgs and great events from Roman history. The majority are after Johann Christoph Storer, a German artist working in Northern Italy. A scarce book. (bs35a) [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Printed for W. Lee.and R. Royston, London 1651 - [14], 366, 84pp. With an engraved frontispiece. With an additional title-page, dated 1652, bound-in. Late nineteenth-century half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Armorial bookplate of 'Richard Harington' to FEP, ink ownership inscription and annotations to FFEP, very small holes to title-page - just clipping text, slight marginal loss to Oo, paper flaws to text of p.300-301 - without loss of sense, some spotting. A reprinting of, and reply to, Catholic controversialist Thomas Bayly's (d. c.1657) Certamen Religiosum (1649) by Church of England clergyman Christopher Cartwright (bap. 1602, d. 1658). Bayly had related the proceedings of a meeting between Charles I and Henry Somerset, earl of Worcester in 1646, at which the latter attempt to convert the former to the Roman Catholicism - the monarch remained true to his protestant faith. Though Bayly's intent had been to provide propaganda disproving notions that Charles harboured papist sympathies, the account was widely disputed with many claiming it to be falsified. Cartwright here accuses Bayly of providing the Catholic Church with a spurious report that may be used in its favour, an issue he attempts to rectify through enforcing the role of the king as a defender of the Protestant cause. ESTC R23673, Wing C684. Size: Quarto [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Parisiis: Apud Sebastianum Cramoisy...et Gabrielem Cramoisy, 1651. FIRST EDITION of Pecquet's famous work in which he records his discovery of the chyle reservoir. "In his experiments with live dogs Pecquet discovered the thoracic duct and cisterna chylii. He correctly described the termination of the chyliferous vessels (Aselli's 'lacteal veins') in the cisterna, refuting the erroneous notion that the vessels ended in the liver; he also described the junction of the thoracic duct at the union of the jugular and subclavial veins. In a rare early instance of nearly simultaneous triple independent discovery, the thoracic duct was also discovered independently by Thomas Bartholin (1652; see G&M 1096) and by the Swedish physician Olof Rudbeck (1653; see G&M 1098)" (Norman).In Paris Harvey's theories of the circulation of the blood had been rejected at the university, and in this book Pecquet, who worked with a small group of Harveyites at the Jardin du Roi, included a dissertation on the circulation, which ensured its acceptance there. See "Appendix IV, The Acceptance of Harvey's Doctrine during his Lifetime" in Keynes, The Life of William Harvey (1966).G&M 1095. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 28A. Norman catalogue 1676. Foster, Lectures on the History of Physiology, p. 49.Small 4to, pp. (xii), 108. With 6 engravings in the text (1 full-page). Woodcut initials, divisional title to the Dissertatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis, et Chyli Motu. Contemporary limp vellum. Paper slightly browned and vellum darkened, but an excellent copy. Early signature of Dupin of Montp
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London, William Wilson, 1651. 4to. (14), 591, (23) pp, final blank. With additional engr. title page (frontispiece), 4 full-page text woodcuts (2 folding) and several smaller woodcuts in the text, as well as 1 folding woodcut plate, latterly backed with cloth. Sumptuous mid-19th-century three quarter morocco binding with gilt spine. Extremely rare and early edition of this great English hippiatric manual, first published in 1615, by one of the earliest western owners of and dealers in Arabian horses. A distinctly modern touch is provided by the small woodcut pointing hands scattered about the margins, denoting new cures and "medicines that are most certaine and approved; and heretofore never published". Gervase (Gervais, Jarvis) Markham, as well as his father Robert, a Nottinghamshire MP and Sheriff, was the owner of valuable horses, and "is said to have imported the first Arab. In a list of Sir Henry Sidney's horses in 1589 'Pied Markham' is entered as having been sold to the French ambassador [and it, or a horse of the same name, may have been given to Markham by Sir Francis Walsingham], and Gervase sold an Arabian horse to James I for £500" (DNB). - Variously browned; occasional corner faults (no loss to text). From the library of Sir Robert Throckmorton, Bt. (1800-62), member of an eminent Anglo-Catholic noble family who sat in the House of Commons from 1831 to 1835 (his bookplate on front pastedown; a later bookplate is opposite on the flyleaf). Wing M659. Poynter 20.7. Wellcome IV, 56 (incomplete). Cf. Mennessier de la Lance II, 156. Huth p. 17 (other editions). [Attr
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William HARVEY: Exercitationes de generatione animalium. With copper engraved title (showing Jove) . Amsterdam: Elzevier 1651 . 16°. [Not num. p. 1-4 (engraved title, printed title)], p. 1-568, [6 not num. p. (index, addenda)]
Contemporary vellum binding on two raised bands, with hand-written title on spine, as well as colour cut.
1st continental edition of this seminal work on animal generation by English physician, anatomist, physiologist and embryologist William Harvey (1578-1657), the most significant advancement in embryology since Aristotle and the first to challenge the prevalent theory of preformation of the foetus by stating „ex ovo omnia". The engraved title shows Jove opening an egg inscribed with the motto "Ex ovo omnia" from which emerge a variety of creatures (deer, snake, fish, insect, spider and a child). The 1st edition had appeared shortly before in London. Due to it's success three Amsterdam imprints followed in the same year, preceded copy represents the 2nd of them.
Vellum slightly stained, overall fresh copy of this scarce Elzevier imprint.
Wellcome III

On March 5, 1651 St. Anthonis dike broke at Houtewael, near Diemen. Much of Amstelland came under water. Many artists have depicted this breakthrough. In the picture he extreme violence with which he water invaded the territory. Signed and dated lower left: B. Picart sculp. di. 1728. On the top right margin: Tom: II. Pag. 556. Engraving on laid paper, stunning conditions, in passepartout; total: 390 x 486 mm. PH4N

Palermo: Pietro Coppola, 1651. 4to (200x145 mm). Collation: [Ï€]4 â€ 4 A-T4 V2 X4 Y2 Z4 [Ï‡]2. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, [12], 176, [4: errata corrige] pp. and [4] folding plates engraved by Francesco Nigro and Francesco La Barbera after Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera. Richly gilt modern morocco binding, original sprinkled edges. Minor restorations to the outer margin of the first leaves without loss, small worm track in the gutter of a few leaves not affecting the text, tears repaired along the folding of one plate, all in all a very good copy.EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of this festival account attributed to Filippo Paruta, but edited by his son Simplicio, who also signs the dedication to the Senate of Palermo, and published posthumously under the name of his other son Onofrio.In the note to the reader Onofrio provides a detailed list of the works (orations, occasional writings, inscriptions for ephemeral architectures, etc.) of his father Filippo, who was the secretary to the Palermo Senate and the major responsible for the iconographic program realized on the occasion of the 1625 festivity.At the beginning of the 1620s the viceroy Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy rebuild the Accademia dei Riaccesi, which gathered in the Royal Palace, and entrusted the scholar and mathematician Carlo Maria Ventimiglia with the direction of the academy. Around his figure gravitated many of the artists and scholars who designed the program and the solemn procession of the relics of St. Rosalia, held in June of 1625 as a sign of gratitude for deliverance from plague. Among
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LES OEUVRES SPIRITUELLES du R.P. LOUYS DE GRENADE (SPIRITUAL WORKS of LOUIS OF GRANADA). Louis de Granada, translated from Spanish into French by Father Simon Martin. PARIS : Chez JEAN JOST, M. DC. LI (1651). Third Edition, enlarged with the addition of "Passages de la Saincte Ecriture & des Peres, avec des Tables pour les Predicateurs" (Passages of the Holy Scripture and the Fathers, with Tables for Preachers). LARGE FORMAT HARDCOVERS, leather backed spine with speckled paper covered boards, gilt decorated spine, leather spine label stamped in gilt, Folio, 9x14 inches (22x35 cm), title page printed in black and red, with engraved portrait. Pagination: [xxx] pages + 1987 columns (page 6 onwards are numbered in columns, 2 columns per page, for a total of 994 pages). TEXT IN FRENCH. The spiritual works of the Reverend Louys of Granada, divided into four parts : La Guide des Pecheurs (The Fishermen's Guide); Le Livre de l'Oraison (The Book of Contemplative Prayer); Le Memorial de la Vie Christienne (The Memorial of Christian Life), and le Livre de L'Amour de Dieu (the Book of God's Love); avec la Lettre de S. Eucher (with the Letter of St. Eucher). Condition: The covers are worn, soiled, and scraped, the bottom cover corners are bent and creased, the spine is frayed at its ends and pulling for 1 inch at the top, the spine label has some chips; nonetheless the covers are solid, doing their job well, and are attractive in a Hogwarts Library sort of way. Internally, the pages have lightly toned and there is foxing to the first and last few pages, there are some old previous own
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Amsterdam: J. Jamssonium, 1651. First Edition. 12mo. 432p. 17 engravings of emblems with chart.Professor Boxhorn of Leiden was both a classical history professor and an expert in philology.His emblems here are set in terms of 17th Century attire and buildings..Mario Praz, Studies in seventeenth century imagery, p. 285. Emblem VI is erroneously labeled V as is evidenced by V which precedes it.(A new possibly pirated edition came out the same year without noting place or publisher). Bound in full vellum, title on spine in brown ink, all edges blue, some soiling to vellum as usual. A very nice copy.

London: Printed by J. G. for R. Royston,, 1651. Or, A Dissertation Concerning Man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the Member of a Society, first Secular, and then Sacred Duodecimo (142 x 80 mm). Contemporary calf, spine neatly rebacked to style, compartments double-ruled in black, raised bands, boards ruled in black with triple-rule centre panel with floral corner motifs also tooled in black, red edges. S4 bound in after B8 as recorded by MacDonald & Hargreaves. Engraved title page and 3 plates, woodcut initials. A few neat pencil annotations to the text including a reference to Locke on page 224, small ink inscription to front free endpaper. Extremities a little rubbed, endpapers browned from turn-ins, small puncture to upper margin of E2 and nick to upper edge of O3, minor loss to fore edge of R1 not affecting text, overall a very good copy with very occasional spotting to lightly browned contents. First English edition (first published in Latin in 1642) of De cive, the first full exposition of Hobbes's political thought to appear in print and the work which "established Hobbes's reputation among select intellectual circles" (ODNB). Hobbes wrote De cive ("On the citizen") as the third section of a planned three-part treatise on the elements of philosophy, although the first two parts, De corpore and De homine, were in fact published several years after the appearance of De cive, in 1655 and 1658 respectively. De cive presented "his solution to the problem of moral conflict, a solution in which politics came to the rescue of ethics. The book begins with an acc
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London: Printed by J. G. for R. Royston, 1651 - Duodecimo (142 x 80 mm). Contemporary calf, spine neatly rebacked to style, compartments double-ruled in black, raised bands, boards ruled in black with triple-rule centre panel with floral corner motifs also tooled in black, red edges. Extremities a little rubbed, endpapers browned from turn-ins, small puncture to upper margin of E2 and nick to upper edge of O3, minor loss to fore edge of R1 not affecting text, overall a very good copy with very occasional spotting to lightly browned contents. S4 bound in after B8 as recorded by MacDonald & Hargreaves. Engraved title page and 3 plates, woodcut initials. A few neat pencil annotations to the text including a reference to Locke on page 224, small ink inscription to front free endpaper. First English edition (first published in Latin in 1642) of De cive, the first full exposition of Hobbes's political thought to appear in print and the work which "established Hobbes's reputation among select intellectual circles" (ODNB). Hobbes wrote De cive ("On the citizen") as the third section of a planned three-part treatise on the elements of philosophy, although the first two parts, De corpore and De homine, were in fact published several years after the appearance of De cive, in 1655 and 1658 respectively. De cive presented "his solution to the problem of moral conflict, a solution in which politics came to the rescue of ethics. The book begins with an account of the state of nature, that is, in a situation without civil government. It has often been supposed that Hobbes believed that con
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24th plate of 100 portraying Rome's palaces and ruins and even reconstruction of ancient buildings in Rome. The second state of these etchings were collected in the publication by Peter Schenck:'Roma aeterna, sive ipsius aedificiorum Romanorum, integrorium collapsorumque, conspectus duplex. ' In the 'Aedificiorum Index':'24. Fons Navonae', view of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) in the Piazza Navona. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza as did the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor. Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:'FONS in area qua hodie NAVONA ... / P Schenck exc: Amsteloed: cum Privil:' Etching on paper with margins; platemark: 198 x 167 mm; total: 255 x 190 mm; state I/2; some very small tears along margins; Hollstein 1497-1596; Nagler 177; Le Blanc 19; Wurzbach 313

Paris: Appresso Giacomo Langlois, 1651. Paris: Appresso Giacomo Langlois,, 1651. Novamente dato in luce, con la vita dell'istesso autore, scritta da Rafaelle Du Fresne. Si sono giunti i tre libri della pittura, & il trattato dell statua di Leon Battista Alberti, con la vita del medesimo. Quarto (376 × 249 mm). Contemporary mottled calf professionally refurbished (joints and corners repaired, new label to style), decorative gilt spine, marbled edges. Additional engraved title by René Lochon (incorporating a portrait of Leonardo), portrait of Alberti, 73 plates (19 of which are after Nicolas Poussin) in the text (illustrative or diagrammatic), title vignettes, head- and tailpieces and initials. Much of gilt rubbed from spine, divisional title to Alberti's "della Pittura" misbound before Alberti general title, old grease stain to engraved title, pale dampstain in gutter of first few gatherings, scattered marginal stains and signs of handling otherwise a very good copy, complete with the medial blank [R4]. Editio princeps of Leonardo's treatise on painting, also published in a French translation the same year, although that edition did not include the two treatises by Alberti. Brunet gives precedence to this edition in Italian, which is virtually doubled in size by the addition of Alberti's Trattato della pittura and Trattato della statua. Together these texts comprise the foundational practical treatise on Renaissance art. The two editions were the first-ever publications of Leonardo's treatise. The French writer and theorist on art and architecture Fréart de Chambray initi
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